Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

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Map thyself

December 13, 2007 – 6:29 am

{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.}
I’ve written pretty [...]

Seven notes, six links

November 1, 2007 – 9:51 pm

Hypothesis:
Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb.
Plea:
Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good ideas that [...]

Halloween debriefing, baby-friendly in 2007

November 1, 2007 – 6:27 am

Downtown Santa Cruz yesterday in daylight hours, among throngs of candy-seeking children and stroller-pushing parents (notably, myself, the wife, and our neighbors).
I’m the one in the funny hat.
Last year, this costume was quite a bit less baby-friendly.

A career move

September 27, 2007 – 8:15 am

I’m happy to announce that on Monday I’ll be showing up for my first day of work at Gatehouse Media in Fairport, New York.

I’ll be working with Howard Owens, Bill Blevins, an awesome team of developers and designers, and many more talented folks. (Yes, I will try to pull that remembering-all-your-names on the first [...]

Notes on migrating three quarters of a mile

July 4, 2007 – 9:32 pm

So we moved. And by “moved,” I mean we loaded our stuff into a truck and drove less than a mile to an apartment with more space, less drunk people throwing up next to our bedroom window (so far), and far more sanity all around us.
The state of our new living room as of a [...]